10 Man Newcastle Go Down At West Brom To Late Penalty

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

5:35pm Wednesday, January 1st, 2014

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Newcastle started the new year in the same way we finished 2013 – by losing 1-0 – but this game at the Hawthorns was turned on its head after 62 minutes, when Mathieu Debuchy received a straight red card for what was adjudged to have been a two footed tackle on Claudio Yacob, although referee Lee Mason’s decision seemed very harsh.

Fabrico Coloccini in action today And it wasn’t until the 87th minute that West Brom scored, when Saido Berahino scored form the penalty spot after Vydra had been brought by Krul after rounding the Newcastle goalkeeper.

So it’s two defeats in a row, and we’re bound the get the doom and gloomers back – but we were unlucky today, but it’s not good to lose two games in a row – although Sunderland lost 1-0 at home to Aston Villa, just to cheer you up just a little bit.

And the Premier League referees are affecting too many games with their sending offs – as they did in our favor against Stoke City, and what needs to be clarified is when a tackle in now illegal and when a tackle is a red card offense – it’s certainly not clear these days.

Newcastle were playing in their yellow Brazil like strips and got off to a decent start at the Hawthorns this afternoon, with the teams seemingly evenly matched.

There were very few chances created in the first by either side, although the two best chances went to the home side – and one of them was on 16 minutes when former Sunderland player Sessegnon just missed getting to a left wing cross as he slid in for the ball.

And after 27 minutes Yohan Cabaye had a decent chance when Mike Williamson headed the ball down to him in the penalty are but Yohan shot side – and that was a good chance.

After 44 minutes the best chance of the half came for West Brom, but Nicolas Anelka missed it, and it was more good play from Morgan Amalfitano (Romain’s older brother) as he rounded Gouffran and cut the ball back – but Alelka hit the ball over the bar from just four yards out.

Amalfitano was the danger man for West Brom, and he was causing some problem down West Brom’s right wing.

Half time came after one minute of injury time and the sides were level 0-0 in what was an even game, and Alan Pardew was seen talking to Ben Arfa just before the half so maybe the Frenchman will come on at the start of the second half.

Sure enough Ben Arfa came on in the second half and that the day for Yoan Gouffran.

But the game was turned on it’s head after 62 minutes when Mathiue Debuchy was sent off – for what Lee Mason adjudged to have been a two footed tackle on Claudio Yacob – and it seemed to us an extremely harsh decision on the Newcastle right back – but to make things worse he will now miss the next three games.

And three minutes later Coloccini limped off with what seemed to be an injury – and we haven’t had many injuries this season – so far.

And after Newcastle seemed to have been able to doggedly survive with just 10 men, we gave have away a penalty when Vydra was brought down by the goalkeeper after going around Tim Krul, and with just three minutes remaining in the game. 🙁

Berahino struck the penalty home, and unfortunately it was another poor result for Newcastle, but not too bad a performance.

Tsunki…I know we have had this discussion about what you would want from an att. fullback and I know we haven’t come to an agreement, but for mist parts I am very pleased with both Santon and Debuchy ????

How is pards not to blame for today? We got max pts playing 451 away from home and today he changes that formation!! Consistently picks Shola ahead of players like HBA who was MOTM against Stoke then dropped for next 2 games!! I read that fans on here are talking of tiredness which is laughable because WBA have come through some amount of matches!! We haven’t used our squad!!

8th is where we are and 8th is where we will stay in may. In august we would have been well happy with that.Galling to think we are not that far behind the teams competing for the champions league spots

Does anyone else think that Remy is so overhyped and the only reason we need him so badly is because our other st’s are totally useless. I honesltly think we have one of the worst strikeforce’s in the league. On Remy he has great finishing technique but that is all i can see that he has???? When he first came i thought he had bags of pace which is what we have needed since the bellamy days yet he is actually average and the only defender i have actually seen him go by is mertasacker which i could do tbh. He is poor with his back to goal and cant hold the play up well so the only position he should be in is a wide left position which he played today. For this i would rather have a trcky winger who can provide for the central st (even though we do not have one capable of mentioning) that can also chip in with goals. We are in desperate need of a striker that can lead the line and hold play up under pressure as Ameobi would be lucky to play for a lower championship team let alone a team in top half of prem!!

Our Toon Who was ranting he should be starting??? Absolutely nobody Who’s saying bring him on, a fair few, why? It’s a called an impact sub ffs, you know a vital part of the game, every team wants a game changer on the bench, especially away from home

Starting to think it’s actually the Benny fanboys that p1ss people off about HBA than HBA himself!!!

It’s beyond belief mate, if pards came out and told us that that pigs can fly the majority would believe him!! HBA should be starting ahead of most in our team!! The only name ahead of him in an attacking sense should be Cabaye!! Defensive wingers we must be the only club that believe in this rubbish!!

an alright performance ? you must of been watching a different game to me ed, the amount of times we gave the ball away was shocking, one of the worst performances of the season imo, even cabaye had a one to forget today, we can,t blame it on tiredness coz all the teams have been playing the same amount of games, we,re having a good season so far but today we got a taste of reality, again by a lower team

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